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(09/17/08 5:00am)
Throat Culture starts its shows off with a series of disclaimers. The first establishes an imaginary "splash zone," setting aside the first few rows of the Arellano Theatre as a place where the audience might not actually get wet, but instead will probably have some sort of food-esque substance chucked at them. The second disclaimer speaks to content: Throat Culture is known to occasionally (frequently) be insulting. This is not necessarily a bad thing - insults can be funny - but Throat Culture has been known to take it too far. This time, however, the group's selections of sketches and video clips balanced humor with insult very nicely.
(09/14/08 5:00am)
Hampdenfest is Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on "The Avenue," W. 36th Street. To see a full schedule of the day's events, visit www.hampdenfest.com.
(04/23/08 5:00am)
New legislation hopes to keep the rocky state of U.S. credit markets from preventing the granting of financial aid to parents and students.
(04/23/08 5:00am)
Maryland's highest court has redefined the concept of rape to include situations in which one party withdraws consent after penetration.
(04/09/08 5:00am)
The University has pledged to provide at least $5 million over the next five years to help departments both hire and retain outstanding female and minority professorial candidates through a pilot program, the Mosaic Initiative.
(04/02/08 5:00am)
Like a majority of people at Hopkins, Judith Walkowitz originally wished to study biology; luckily she instead pursued history. She was able to set aside time from her latest project researching London's Soho neighborhood in the interwar period to talk with the News-Letter.
(03/12/08 5:00am)
Getting screened for colon cancer may become as easy as swallowing a pill. The PillCam is a small camera contained within a pill-like capsule, and it recently became available for patients in both Europe and Israel.
(03/12/08 5:00am)
The University of Maryland, College Park, will begin offering students parking permit discounts for "green" cars.
(03/05/08 5:00am)
A first-ever report issued by the Baltimore Collegetown Network (BCN) this week says the group's member institutions have contributed $17.2 billion to the regional economy.
(03/05/08 5:00am)
Confession: I don't check the weather when I wake up in the morning. I open my eyes each morning and one of two things happens. Either I get a wonderful glare of sun and I conclude "Hot!" or I wake up and have no glare and thereby conclude "Cold."
(02/22/08 5:00am)
The change in scheduling this semester has led to a variety of student complaints; they include an inability to have Fridays off, the clustering of classes in the same time slot and perhaps most unpredictably, an increase in wait time and crowding in dining facilities.
(02/10/08 5:00am)
At first there was skepticism. Really, a musical, Witness? And a student-written one at that? Could they really pull it off? Think about it: a play about a game show with a domineering host and crazy antics. Potentially not boring. But a play about a game show with a domineering host with crazy antics that happens to be a musical. Come on. That's a no brainer.
(02/07/08 5:00am)
The month of February brings many things to mind. Valentine's Day, or the birthdays of presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. But for the 50 or so people who gathered in the Glass Pavilion last Friday there was an additional celebration in mind. February marks the beginning of Black History Month.
(01/30/08 5:00am)
The number of early decision applicants for the class of 2012 increased by six percent while rates of acceptance went down, according to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
(12/08/07 5:00am)
The Senior Class Student Council is in the final stages of choosing a commencement speaker and will announce its selection next week, according to members of the council.
(11/15/07 5:00am)
Something on the Upper Quad reeked.
(11/14/07 5:00am)
For using bacteria and drug-filled molecular capsules, a postgraduate student from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center has garnered the top prize at a national inventors competition.
(11/14/07 5:00am)
A study conducted by researchers at the Hopkins School of Medicine, the World Bank and Case Western Reserve has found a reasonably easy way to increase the health of populations in developing countries.
(11/08/07 5:00am)
Cardboard boxes dotted the Freshman Quad Saturday in a representation of homelessness for Boxfest, an annual event sponsored by the Hopkins chapter of Habitat for Humanity (HFH-JHU).
(09/26/07 5:00am)
Hopkins will officially retire its JHED Web site on Sept. 27, 2007. Used by students for checking their e-mail accounts, sharing files and accessing a campus directory, the JHED Web site will be completely replaced by the use of myJohnsHopkins portal. The move, which began on Aug. 2, 2007, is the result of the need for a more simplistic and central way for users to access online services.